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Monday, March 30, 2015

Cover Art: St Brigit and Her Ale by Anna Pierlot

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The cover art here is from the February 2013 issue of Catholic Insight, depicting St Brigit pouring ale from a barrel into a pitcher, ...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Remember Marcella

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When looking for well researched and illustrated posts on Irish saints, particularly the three primary saints of Ireland, Columba, Patr...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Review by Peter Crawley: "Brigit" -- a Play by Tom Murphy

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Review: Brigit by Peter Crawley   for the Irish Times A prequel to his masterful Bailegangaire, Brigit fleshes out a complex family ...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Father Monica & Saint Brigid's, Calgary

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I was invited today to a small gathering at the Listening Post in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, a drop-in centre where the people of ...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages Officially Opened

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Large crowds gathered to celebrate the Official Opening of Solas Bhride Centre and Hermitages , Tully Road, Kildare town on Friday, Januar...

RTÉ: Biddy Boys, Then and Now

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From the archives of RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) comes this 1965 clip from Newsbeat on the Biddy Boys tradition, showing a judging of sev...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Mea Culpa: A Wee Mistake I Need to 'Fess Up To

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In my review of novels involving Brigit, I gave a number of reasons for not recommending Heather Terrell 's Brigit of Kildare . O...

Vita Sanctae Brigitae: Cogitosus's Life of Brigit

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Wearying of the fact that we who are not card-carrying academics cannot easily access this invaluable document, I'm transforming the p...
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Saturday, January 24, 2015

Create a Brigid Prayer Painting in Mixed Media Collage

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Lady of the Radiant Flame: Create a Brigid Prayer Painting in Mixed Media Collage Join me for  “Lady of the Radiant Flame,”  an  onl...

Thirty Days of Brigit with Joanna Powell Colbert

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“30 Days of Brigid” is an ecourse for those who want a daily inspirational touchstone during Brigid’s season  of the Prelude-to-Sprin...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Brigit on the Burren: A Snippet from Lady Gregory

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A Book of Saints and Wonders – Lady Gregory, 1906.  p8 She Remembers the Poor But if Brigit belonged to the east, it is not in th...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Boundaries Between Goddess and Saint: A Review of Miranda Green's "Celtic Goddesses"

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This is a book I reviewed in A Long Sip at the Well , but this is a review I wrote the year the book came out, which I just stumbled across...